Natural Resources Management Documents

This report is for field work conducted in April 2003 in the project District of Na Mo in Oudomxay Province.The participants included the Land Management Adviser, Land Management Component staff (from the Forestry Inventory and Planning Division), DAFO staff and District Administration staff.

This PhD study on &quot;Community Based Land Use Planning in the Highlands of Northern Thailand as a Means of Natural Resource Management&quot; was initiated in October 1996 and funded for three years by the Tropical Ecology Support Programme (TOEB) of GTZ.

The impact of woodfuel collection on forests has been controversial and its role in rural livelihoods and deforestation the subject of considerable debate.This study reviews the main dimensions of this discourse and the resulting responses from the forestry sector.